How to Use black hole in a Sentence
black hole
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The merger led to a black hole about 25 times the mass of the sun.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 23 June 2020
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With ‘Ripe,’ I was drawn to the pomegranate and the black hole.
—Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
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The area is known as a torus, swirling around a black hole in the middle.
—Julia Musto, Fox News, 14 Jan. 2023
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On the ice, Hakanpaa is a black hole at both ends of the rink.
—Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 29 July 2021
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The Messier 87 black hole is 6.5 billion times the mass of our sun.
—Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 July 2021
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Somewhere in that black hole was the Zheng He and the rest of the Chinese fleet.
—Elliot Ackerman, Wired, 23 Feb. 2021
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But keep in mind: This is still a black hole in your screen.
—Geoffrey A. Fowler, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2022
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Because the laptop doesn’t have the causal power of a black hole.
—IEEE Spectrum, 13 Apr. 2023
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And our own sun is not big enough to make a black hole itself.
—Lee Roop | Lroop@al.com, al, 14 Apr. 2023
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There is and always will be the empty chair at the table, the black hole in the chest.
—Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 26 Aug. 2020
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Like any object, black holes take time to grow and form.
—WIRED, 5 Nov. 2023
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Not all matter that comes close to a black hole is doomed.
—Scientific American, 1 July 2020
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Make sure the brush extends above the tops of the blinds so there isn’t a black hole when birds fly over you.
—Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 15 Jan. 2020
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Like any object, black holes take time to grow and form.
—Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
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The gamma-ray burst — witnessed as a long, bright pulse of light — was the birth cry of a black hole.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 22 Oct. 2022
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The researchers measured the mass of one of the black holes as 50 million times that of our sun.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 May 2024
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The study is a deeper look at what’s inside a black hole.
—Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 23 Feb. 2022
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There’s more to figure out about black hole jets and their role in the cosmos.
—Quanta Magazine, 20 May 2021
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Astronomers were able to take note of the black hole thanks to the Hubble telescope.
—Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 21 Jan. 2022
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The striker position, though, has been a bit of a black hole.
—Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2022
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Paint the picture! — that tea was enough to send Peter down a black hole of doubt.
—Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 18 Feb. 2020
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The discovery of a black hole near Earth back in May seemed like some kind of sign.
—Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2020
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But the black hole has entropy too, and the amount depends on the black hole’s surface area.
—Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 27 May 2025
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This is a bit of an enigma and a big problem for black hole hunters.
—Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 19 July 2022
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For a certain kind of player, this game is a black hole.
—Aaron Zimmerman, Ars Technica, 6 May 2022
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Images came through of the two black holes—or, rather, of the ring of stuff falling into the black holes.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2024
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The black hole in the middle of our galaxy is getting some time in the spotlight.
—Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 12 May 2022
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But how and when does this happen, and which comes first: the galaxy or its black hole?
—New York Times, 20 Dec. 2021
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And all wonder why the nation fell into a black hole over the past four years!
—Letters To The Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 30 Nov. 2024
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The theory suggests a peculiar process occurs near the event horizon — the point of no return — around black holes.
—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 15 May 2025
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